On Mon, 22 Sep 2003 09:15:39 EDT, PSHedgpeth wrote
> I've been gone for a few days and am just catching up...With all of the
> conversation re cupola direction...are you guys saying that waycars
> were turned to keep one particular end forward...As the kids
> say..."I don't think so"...whoever heard of turning a waycar...I
> never ever saw it done and don't know of any time it was ever
> done....It went one way on the outboud trip and came back the same way....
>
> Of course you always gave a train "a good rear end"..out of the initial
> terminal...This meant putting a low car right ahead of the waycar as
> has been mentioned...This is just common sense and good practice.
>
> Whoever heard of turning a waycar....give me some specifics as to
> when where and why this was ever done as a regular practice....
>
At least around 1950, the BNW turn out of Burlington usually turned loco and
caboose (or the entire outgoing train) at the Washington depot wye . . .
Recollection from a *very* young age -
Marshall Thayer
Mt. Pleasant, IA
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